EDITOR – How many times does the wheel have to be broke before we can have service delivery?
This comes after KwaZulu-Natal’s 61 municipalities have committed themselves to implementing the Back to Basics Programme, which aims to revitalise basic service delivery. KZN Premier Senzo Mchunu and co-operative governance and traditional affairs MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube launched the campaign in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday, 17 February.
The programme has five pillars, the provision of basic services – creating decent living conditions; good governance; public participation; financial management and institutional capacity.
Err – I feel this is not about service delivery, it is about looking busy. And the answer is: as many times as there are opportunities to campaign for the party.
We had this from Pravin Gordhan on 18 July 2014, when he said, “We want every municipality in South Africa to ensure that it undertakes core basic functions as efficiently, as effectively, and as religiously as is humanly possible,” and now Senzo is passing the buck, supported by Pravin’s CoGTA.
Please Lord, can we have a “religiously” committed government soon. In my lifetime?
Mahmood
North Beach
